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Darc Requiem said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Considering only that model is cheaper, I think Valve is emptying their stores of the LCD model now.

Hopefully Valve will come with a successor in the next couple years, as it's hardware starts getting seriously dated.

They need to have APU with same memory bus as Strix Halo. One of the biggest boat anchors around improved APU performance is memory bandwith. Strix Halo has a 256-bit memory bus instead of typical 128-bit bus. Doubling the memory bandwidth would do wonders for performance. 

There are other and better alternatives than this. For doubling the bandwidth you'd need to thicker boards made of more layers, which strongly increases their price. It's one of the reasons why entry-level GPUs come with such small bandwidths

• HBM: Would eliminate the bottleneck but at a hefty price, so probably not worth it
• GDDR7: Would be very fast, but capacity could be a concern.
• LPDDR5X: Samsung is now producing LPDDR5X-9600 memory, which would strongly increase the bandwidth over the LPDDR5 memory in the Steam Deck with minimal changes
• DDR6: Expected in 2027, it increases bandwidths considerably as it comes with speeds ranging from DDR6-8800 to DDR6-17600. So if there's no successor until then this could be a very viable option.

So yeah, there are a lot of alternatives, some more sensible than expanding the bus to 256 bit.